The story on all the aspects of Grayling's brainchild of the New College of the Humanities (NCH) has really exploded since it was announced on Sunday, criticised on Monday, and torn into early today. Here are the main links on it all so far:

Blog post by the Church Mouse, "New College for the Humanities - theists need not apply?" It's wrong to see this NCH as an "atheist venture" (which I initially did, and was mistaken in doing so; Matt Wardman has the best comments on that all in the thread under the Mouse's post), but there are aspects which need to be covered, and I shall do that in my next blog posts.

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I rather think that the viability of the venture will be determined by how employers regard this new institution. Unless it is well received by them, then who is going to shell out such a large sum of money for a London External degree which could have been had for half the price or less?

I rather think that the viability of the venture will be determined by how employers regard this new institution. Unless it is well received by them, then who is going to shell out such a large sum of money for a London External degree which could have been had for half the price or less?

True. But parents who are shelling out this kind of money will not have acquired without checking what their offspring can hope to gain by it. Unless Grayling can show, within a few years, that his institution is as well regarded as Russell Groups universities I don't think he can survive.

True. But parents who are shelling out this kind of money will not have acquired without checking what their offspring can hope to gain by it. Unless Grayling can show, within a few years, that his institution is as well regarded as Russell Groups universities I don't think he can survive.

Indeed. Difficult to see how the NCH can really succeed, and in fact one of my links in my post above is to a Guardian article on grave questions about Grayling's business model for it.

In the meantime, it's causing a lot of PR damage, collateral and direct, on a lot of scenes.

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